Following the airdrop of aid, President Biden of the United States announced that he would build a wharf in the Palestinian Gaza Strip to provide assistance by sea. The move of the United States to deliver weapons to Israel while providing humanitarian assistance to Gaza in the form of air dropping materials and building docks has been widely questioned by the international community.

In his State of the Union address on the 7th, President Biden announced that the United States would build a temporary port along the Mediterranean coast of the Gaza Strip to receive supplies. The US Central Command said on the 9th that a logistics support ship of the US military had set out from the Langley Eustis joint base in Virginia to the eastern Mediterranean, carrying the first batch of equipment needed for the establishment of the temporary port. Earlier, the US Department of Defense released a schedule for the construction of temporary ports, saying that the project would require more than 1000 soldiers to participate and could take nearly 60 days.

Before saying that it would build a temporary port, the United States also chose to provide aid to the Gaza Strip by air drop. However, the effectiveness of these actions by the United States has been questioned.

Abel Etfa, spokesman for the Middle East region of the World Food Programme: In terms of the quantity of goods delivered, air drop cannot compete with or replace truck fleets; In terms of cost, it is also much more expensive than the land fleet. The quantity of air dropped materials is extremely limited. Only a few people can benefit from it.

The United States Islamic Relations Commission called on the President of the United States to "stop playing firemen and arsonists simultaneously in the Gaza Strip".

"Biden may involve himself in the Gaza War by providing both food and bombs." The New York Times said on the 8th that although Biden decided to provide assistance through air and sea transportation, the other side is still providing bombs to Israel. The United States may suddenly discover that it has been in the position of both sides of the conflict to some extent, This has caused people to question and worry about its role.

Some netizens posted that the US action was "extremely hypocritical". "The hypocrisy and double standards of American politicians are world-class". "What the United States did was like cutting off people's legs and giving them several wheelchairs."

Michael Fahri, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations on the right to food: I have reason to believe that this is a performance aimed at catering to the American audience when the American election is coming. This is the only reasonable explanation. According to my previous description, from the humanitarian perspective, international perspective and human rights perspective, the US air drop and the establishment of sea ports seem ridiculous.

Moreover, the people in the Gaza Strip said frankly that all the so-called aid efforts of the United States were really a scratch. The United States did not make real efforts to save the local humanitarian disaster.

Hassan, a displaced person: Rather than telling us that they will build a port to help us, we should stop providing weapons to Israel. All those weapons from the United States are killing us and our children at any time and anywhere.

Source: CCTV News

Video production intern Shi Lei

Edited by Guo Fangxia

Second instance Xie Yutong

Third review Yang Yi